23/10/2017

HAPPY DEATH DAY ★ | MOVIE REVIEW

(if you haven't watched thetrailer yet, please watch itto save both of us some time)I guess judging from my two-sentence intro you can already guess thatI am HEAVILY IN LOVE WITH THIS MOVIE. YES! I am always a sucker formovies with similar plots like Happy Death Day, always! I learned thatGroundhog Day was actually the FIRST EVER movie that came up withthis plot but unfortunately, I've never watched that movie 😂 Instead,Edge of Tomorrow (starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt) was my veryfirst encounter of this type of plot, where somebody died & revivedrepeatedly. I remember re-watching this movie in the cinema for SOMANYYY TIMES (GOD BLESS MY BANK ACCOUNT) MY FRIEND ACTUALLYLEGIT THOUGHT I WAS POSSESSED BY A DEMON 😂 Well, looking backat it now, I was indeed a crazy little bitch back then but I'm slightlymore rational (and wiser!) with my spending habits now. I guess themain reason why I adore this kind of storyline so much is becauseI really enjoy watching the process of somebody reflecting on howprecious "tomorrow" is. When you keep repeating the same day overand over and over and over again, simple things such as "tomorrow"made you regret not cherishing them preciously — the emotions thatthe character went through while trying to "live another different day"always affect me more deeply than any other aspects of the movie does.

When I first saw the trailer of this movie, I was honestly unimpressed (mainly becauseof the title of the movie), but I still made a mental note to watch it when it comesout in the cinema — & I'm glad I did! It's not a movie that's trying to win any academyawards out there, but it certainly managed to successfully deliver humour and horrorin a very fresh, engaging way. I was actually surprised it held back on the gore andthe blood — I mean, don't get me wrong, I was definitely squirming in my cinemaseat with tension during most of the horror scenes of this movie, but there isdefinitely a very well-balanced ratio between the humour and horror elementsin this movie, which makes this movie VERY ENJOYABLE TO WATCH. The millennialreferences made in this movie made me laughed my heart out. You can tell thatthe scriptwriters of this movie didn't try TOO hard to push the humour elementto the audience BUT all the funny lines just hit home to my laughing point SODAMN HARD. There are always some movies *ahem* pITch *ahhemm* pErfEcT*aaahheemmm* that TRY EXTREMELY HARD in producing funny lines, which10/10 always result in me cringing so hard — and Happy Death Day avoidedall those cringe points for me, which I'm very glad & certainly impressed with! Overall, 9.5/10 for Happy Death Day! ( rating is based on how much I enjoyed watching & engaging with the plot )

For those of you who are wonderingabout the humour / horror ratio ofthis movie, I would rate it at a solid4 to 6. Whenever you're too scared,there will always be a funny scenein the near follow-up, which is verythoughtful of the director to takecare of both horror and humourlovers' interests in a balance.

One of the most exciting part of this movie is when us the audience getto participate in the same journey as the main characterTree(playedby Jessica Rothe) in trying to figure out who is the potential killer thatwants to murder her. It's very interesting because Tree literally has SOMANY ENEMIES (and also she's not very bright) it would take her foreverto figure out who killed her before she continues to die and revive. Asthe search continues, there will be more and more plot twists — bothfunny and eerie, waiting for the audience. During the movie, I was fullyengaged & couldn't move my eyes away from the screen because I wasTHAT INVESTED. In many ways, I think this movie is parodying thosedumb blonde, one-dimensional characters of college trope charactersand the "last girl" in horror movies because it goes all-in on establishingthe main character as somebody you're meant to hate at first and love atlast. If I write anymore I'm gonna spoil the plot so I'll stop here!The endinggenuinely took me in a direction I didn't anticipate, and then it took me backto what I was expecting, but did it in a way that I felt fresh. All in all, I hadfun watching this movie, which I think is what this movie was meant to be: Fun.

If you're looking for the perfectmovieto watch on a Halloween date night, 😈I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND this movie!You can watch this with your friend, yourlovers, BUT maybe NOT with family (don'tthink older people will appreciate all themillennial joke references made in thismovie hahahah!) All in all, I myself amcurrently contemplating whether ornot to watch this movie for the 2ndtime cause I'm THAT OBSESSED!😭I think I'm gonna watch it again this weekend.♥